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It was pro wrestling's most horrific weekend ever in June 2007, when beloved WWE superstar Chris Benoit went crazy -- strangling his wife Nancy and snapping the neck of their 7-year-old son Daniel before taking his own life.

More than a dozen years later, Irvin Muchnick's meticulous true crime account of this event and its aftermath belongs to American history.

Irv investigates scandals in sports -- chiefly, sexual abuse in Olympic sports youth programs and the public health hazards of football. Follow his blog for real-time reporting and commentary on these issues. Documents disclosed under Irv’s 2017 Freedom of Information Act settlement with the Department of Homeland Security exposed the quarter-century-long harboring in this country of former Irish Olympic swimming coach

George Gibney -- now the target of a federal government grand jury investigation (as is USA Swimming, the national sport governing body under the U.S. Olympic Committee). Details are in the ebook

THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES: What the Hunt For the Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in the History of Global Sports Has Told Us About the Sports Establishments and Governments on Two Continents.

Irv says:

Investigative journalism is not “peer-reviewed scientific literature.” It is a contact sport. My version of it favors transparent and interactive relationships with readers and sources. I also recognize that backstories and their interpretation are organic; I strive for what is, at best, the second draft of history.